earthling
Example Sentences
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The post-SBF world, which arrived in tandem with the explosion of ChatGPT, would not be tethered to such puny earthling ventures.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023
But with little conclusive evidence expected to confirm any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2021
So if we're identifying as an earthling, they might call it something else.
From Salon • Nov. 19, 2020
Recurring nightmares of the planet Mars lead a confused earthling into the center of an intergalactic conspiracy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.